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As part of Eyewitness News' "Earth on the Edge" series, Anchor David Ono joined NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory team on the final day of a six-year study over the polar ice caps in Greenland.

Arctic ice at the North Pole melted at a record rate in the summer of 2007, the latest sign that climate change has accelerated in recent years, climate scientists said on Wednesday.

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For many, the sight of vast ice caps at Earth’s poles seems like an unshakable feature of our planet. Yet, a new study suggests that these icy giants are nothing more than a temporary, rare ...

Banner image of polar bear jumping on an ice floe by Andreas Weith via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

While the current ice cap isn't quite at those levels — the last estimate was 5.09 million square kilometers — levels continue to drop sharply by as much as 100,000 square kilometers per day.

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Rather, the troughs on the outer edges of the ice cap form a fairly uniform "V" shape, with the walls on either side measuring about the same height. Further, not all troughs had cloud cover.

This helps melt the polar ice cap, which this year floated in water about 6.3 degrees Fahrenheit (3.5 degrees Celsius) warmer than its historical mean, Steele said.